Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bashly : free and legal Not Alone EP [mp3] Elm City Council : free and legal Troubadours and Thieves Sampler EP [mp3] Gretchen Peters : [...]
by Bill Pearis Book-loving alt rock veteran Lloyd Cole will release his first new album in three years, Standards , on June 21. And though the title might lead you to believe that the album is another "aging rocker releases an album of Sinatra covers," fear not. Apart from the LP's opening cut, his take on "California Earthquake" (famously done by Mama Cass), it's all Cole originals. The record came about when Cole, who spent much of the '80s with [...]
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Matthew Sweet : Winona [ purchase ] Choosing a Matthew Sweet song would make it seem like I was heading back into the land of power pop again, since Sweet is one of the best in that genre, and “Girlfriend,” the album from which this song comes is a masterpiece, but no, “Winona” is a love ballad featuring an aching, very country sounding pedal steel part played by session man extraordinaire Greg Leisz (anyone who can play on albums by such diverse artists as Tiger Army, Avenged Sevenfold, The Jayhawks, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, [...]
"Sam Page is an independent singer/songwriter who creates guitar-driven pop/rock. After performing at scores of open mics and home-recording several songs, Sam formed a band in 2011 and did twenty gigs in southern California. He then released an EP (Waiting for Another Spring) in April 2012 that earned an encouraging amount of praise. Sam's first full album BREACH was released digitally in January 20133. Sam Page`s voice has an oblique, poppy sensibility that sounds and feels 100% melancholy free, his vibrantly upbeat Indie-Pop is an [...]
It hit me on Sunday evening, right at the moment that my friend introduced me to Lindsey Buckingham. Not "What an odd name for a fish!" (Nemo and The Incredible Mr. Limpet aside, I've never really understood the practice of naming fish.) Sure, that thought did cross my mind, but it was totally upstaged by another one: Is there a more underrated rock & roll multi-hyphenate than the singer-songwriter/producer/gui tarist of Fleetwood Mac for whom my friend's fish is named? When people think of Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is generally the first bandmate who comes to mind, but [...]
Couldn't we just tell you about these five covers of the Something/Anything smash? We can't keep them bottled up inside.
Happy Sweet 16 x 3 to Matthew Sweet! Listen to five of the power pop icon's songs getting the cover treatment.
Alex Cox's Repo Man has been one of my favourite films since I rented it in the mid-80s - the best 1980s sf film set in LA [think about it], great cast, hilarious script, how could I resist? What I didn't know when I picked up the the VHS was how important music was to the film, from Iggy blasting the theme song over the opening credits onwards, or that the soundtrack would be my introduction to LA punk. The soundtrack album included tracks by Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, the Circle Jerks, and the Plugz, who also provided [...]
Alex Cox's Repo Man has been one of my favourite films since I rented it in the mid-80s - the best 1980s sf film set in LA [think about it], great cast, hilarious script, how could I resist? What I didn't know when I picked up the the VHS was how important music was to the film, from Iggy blasting the theme song over the opening credits onwards, or that the soundtrack would be my introduction to LA punk. The soundtrack album included tracks by Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, the Circle Jerks, and the Plugz, who also provided [...]
Happy Sunday: ► Jamie XX headlines Drai's in Hollywood where Jacques Greene will also be playing. ► Rapper Talib Kweli takes on the Observatory down in Orange County. ► San Francisco's The Mallard (formed by ex-Rademacher bassist Greer McGettrick) headline Bootleg Bar with their garage psych-rock. [That's their video for "Mansion" above.] Also on tonight's bill: Magic Trash and the Vivids . ► Power pop hero Matthew Sweet does an in-store at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. ► [...]
Five mid-90s alt-rock covers geared to make the milk in your cereal bowl turn purple.
Hold on to your hats, folks. There's so much great music in town this weekend. Here are our picks. FRIDAY, June 8th Matthew Sweet Girlfriend tour at World Cafe Live (8 p.m., $24) Jonathan Richman at Union Transfer (Doors at 8 p.m., tickets to the all ages show are $17.50) WXPN Welcomes Michael McDermott at ... Continue reading
Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can che... Continue reading "Die Antwoord, Matthew Sweet, Murphy's Law and More in This Week's New Show Announcements" >
Next week, Neil Young and Crazy Horse will issue Americana , their first album in nine years, comprised entirely of reworked classic, American folk songs. In celebration of its release, Consequence of Sound decided to turn the tables and put together a list of our favorite covers of Young's exhausting back catalogue. There are plenty - hundreds of them - and they stretch back to as far as the '60s and '70s. Because we couldn't include them all, the list has been cut to a healthy collection of 25 solid inclusions. Something [...]
If you are/were a vinyl collector, you're probably cringing at that stack of records... Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs (2006) The Marmalade (1967) The proximity of yesterday's Matthew Sweet post to today's Cover Friday made it almost a given that I should select a song from one of the Under the Covers albums that he and Susanna Hoffs have recorded (Volume 1 came out in 2006, Volume 2 in 2009). Both albums are full of an assortment of Sweet and Hoffs's favorite [...]
With a face like that, every day ought to be Tuesday (Tuesday Weld, that is, the actress in this 1950s photo). Last night I saw Matthew Sweet on his 20th anniversary Girlfriend tour - he's been on tour since last year playing the entire album in concert, track by track, in order. Personally, if I were him, I would be getting pretty burnt out on that, no matter that the 1991 album is one of the greatest power pop albums of all time, and fairly universally agreed upon as the best power pop [...]
MATTHEW SWEET, THE SUMMER TWINS ( Aladdin Theater , 3017 SE Milwaukie) Current fashion dictates that middle-aged rockers play their most critically beloved albums before a live audience. Matthew Sweet's 11th studio album, Modern Art , was released last fall, so it could make sense for him to be touring behind that, rather than, say, an album that came out two decades ago. Unless of course that album is Girlfriend , his 1991 masterpiece of power pop. It's tempting to be cynical about a tour designed to exploit the epidemic of '90s [...]
At a time when the more popular version of guitar rock was doing other things, Matthew Sweet 's 1991 release Girlfriend almost single-handedly brought melodic and delicious power-pop hooks back into the fore, introducing the grunge generation to the likes of Big Star and The Raspberries by flavor if not by name. Fine and well, but it was the freshness of Sweet's particular concoction that made it something special. Efforts by The Posies, Sloan and Teenage Fanclub all come to mind, but Girlfriend stands out among them as far as 90's power-pop goes. Sweet plays [...]
M83 / photo by Dave Lichterman When the weather starts getting better in Seattle, so do the shows. This week we start with a great show at the Crocodile with School Of Seven Bells and Exitmusic , Tanlines are at Neumos, and the first of two nights begins with Bettye LaVette at Jazz Alley. On Wednesday, DJ Shadow is at Showbox at the Market, Matthew Sweet plays "Girlfriend" in its entirety for the first of two nights at the Triple Door, Frankie Rose and [...]
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